New World Christianity

The US isn't a loony bin it's a loony zoo. One of the major developments in our conception of government was the separation of Church and State and that is how most of the Western world operates. But not America. Watch their news, their rituals and especially their Presidential inaugurations. You still see that hand on/swear by the Bible thing. Becoming President while being a Catholic is still very newsworthy. Politicians at any level reveal in interviews that when they had a major decision to make, they first spent time in intense prayer (no doubt while shedding tears of blood). That doesn't even make THEOLOGICAL sense! If the Universe runs according to the plan of an invisible old man in the sky, future events are already set. What do you think your prayer will accomplish? Do you expect to CHANGE GOD'S MIND?? Puh-Leeeze! Still, praying politicians get their airtime, especially if they're Protestant Evangelicals. It wasn't a ship full of Hindus who landed at Plymouth Rock seeking freedom to worship as they would. It was a ship full of adherents to one particular sect of Protestant Christians. There were piles of these sects who often only differed on the interpretation of one sacrament. Their time was one of the greatest expressions of Christian anal-retentiveness since the 3rd century. No wonder that their concept of democracy was as bent as it came to be.